Changes in the air

A week of things new: jobs, prices, locations.

Copyright 2013: Houston Chronicle

Updated
6:45 pm CDT, Friday, September 20, 2013

Nancy Barnes was named editor-in-chief of the Houston Chronicle. She's leaving the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where she's held the top job since 2007; last year, that paper won a Pulitzer Prize. "You have some of the most fascinating storylines in America," Barnes told Chronicle staff.

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The NFL announced a major jump in the cost of Super Bowl tickets: They'll be $2,600 for the best seats (more than twice the old price) and $950 for the next tier.

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With our mean season almost over, the downtown farmers' market reopened.

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Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts announced that it's relocating, leaving Houston for Austin. The new, Austin-based board of directors says it'll continue to provide programs and services here. But we'll miss having the headquarters in the little gray house across the street from the Menil, where loads of our city's arts groups went for help with their paperwork.